Yesterday Harvey’s 136 in vain as Pak youth beat them inside 45 overs @Melbourne, their senior team lost 7 wickets for 83 vs England their bowler get little success vs Old war hero - Cook / Root also at Melbourne.

Paddles wrote:Yeah but unlike Tendulkar, Cook won a series in Australia with a ton of series runs at 127.66 and now has 8 years to run his runs if not centuries records down. And he's an opener! From England!

Hail chef!

Truth be told, Cook has the best chance to break Tendulkars test runs record.

He told in England “ it’s upto ECB if I reaches there or not “

Waqar ( Pak) says,” The way Virat piles up runs,he will break all records” I, Yorkshire,do not think so,he may ends up his career with 12000 tests runs

Virat Kohli has not convinced me. He may thrive on low, flat sub continental roads but fails test in all conditions. He piled on the runs last time India were in OZ because we generously provided him and Rahane with batting friendly decks. The only venue that he failed on was the extra bouncy Gabba in Brisbane. He is also a liability against the moving ball as he displayed on last tour of England. No not sold on him. Smith, Root and Williamson get runs in all conditions.

baggygreenmania wrote:Hazlewood could have had two that over.. beat Cook with a pearler and saw one fly between keeper and skipper.

Well Hazlewood has bowled with a lot of luck this innings, 2 LBW's with inside edges. Given out by umpire, no review.....Baggers can you say "match fixing". Currently Hazlewood should only have 0/75 but he has had a lot of luck. I am starting to think Starc's bowling contributes a lot to the wickets of Hazlewood, rather than the other way around as some suggest.